BlackHat
Well-Known Member
I'm about a month into my first wine kit. I've been homebrewing beer for about a year and a half with no infected batches so I'm quite confident in my sanitation. However, after racking this wine into a secondary and degassing it with a wine whip, I have mold. Lots of it. At least I'm 99% certain it's mold. It looks like mold, but it doesn't smell like mold (should it smell?). Here's a picture:
So my first question is to verify that this is mold. I sanitized everything so I'm not sure where this would have come from. There was no mold in the primary, and fermentation had completed, resulting in what I calculated to be a 14% ABV wine.
My next questions are how to save this? Can it be saved? Will it be safe to drink? Has the mold affected the flavor? I racked it to a secondary a couple weeks ago and I shoved it into a dark unused closet so I'm not sure how long the mold has been sitting there.
Thanks in advance
So my first question is to verify that this is mold. I sanitized everything so I'm not sure where this would have come from. There was no mold in the primary, and fermentation had completed, resulting in what I calculated to be a 14% ABV wine.
My next questions are how to save this? Can it be saved? Will it be safe to drink? Has the mold affected the flavor? I racked it to a secondary a couple weeks ago and I shoved it into a dark unused closet so I'm not sure how long the mold has been sitting there.
Thanks in advance